OK, I did it

Yahoo Fantasy Basketball. Live draft, trades etc.

Cumulative Points only. As I've said, I think the way they score basketball head to head is silly.

Here's the link: http://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba

League Name: Gangster BB

League ID 31230 :

Password: Corleone

Live Draft: Monday, October 17th, 7:00PM Eastern

Take a look at the league settings. I'm open to suggestions.

JG, you have to play, Uber points or not
DB, you too. Your the Ass Commish

One b-ball game is enough for me, thanks -- and that's the ESPN one. :p

Unless, perhaps, you decide to play Golf, Bass Fishing, NASCAR, IRL, Horse Racing, Diamond Daily, and every other game ESPN offers that I have to worry about as well, on top of football and baseball. :p

Those are all peripheral sports and barely count.

Basketball is one of the Big Three.

Besides, what's another five minutes a day when you weigh that against the thrill of competing and the possibility of being labeled a wuss.

And, if you don't play, this man is gonna take it very personal.

Listen, if you insist on only playing one, play this one. It's already proven that you stink at the other one. :p

They all count for Uber. :p

The ESPN game is a numbers game for me -- I don't know dick about basketball, nor really even care much about it. It's fun to watch in person, sure, but I couldn't care less until the playoffs. And you know I have to play the ESPN game anyway -- as you will :p -- but there's no way I can make two different lineups every single day. Baseball is bad enough, but at least it's a game I know about and enjoy. Football is just once a week, so I don't care if I have to set multiple lineups. But I simply cannot do that every single day for 6 months. I wouldn't even know whom to draft anyway - I don't know anything about anyone. That's why I don't play Hockey games. Simply cuz I don't really care. Granted, I only started playing the ESPN b-ball game because you guys were into it. I held my own for just going by stats. But this year is looking to become a busy one for me and I'm already spending too much time on these games. That's why I can't wait 'til baseball is over, God forbid. And, that's why I said "most likely" even for the ESPN b-ball game.

However, I will think about it -- because I can't stand a game going on that I'm not part of -- but I can't promise I'll play.

You'll play.

After two years of ESPN, you'll know who to draft. Besides, I don't anticipate having that many participants, so you won't have to draft any of the dregs of the league that you never heard of just to fill out your roster.

And Anyway, Yahoo has the players ranked, so you won't forget anyone.

C'mon. It'll be a nice change of pace.

It's just a huge commitment -- it's SIX MONTHS LONG! -- it's not like I can just quit like I could with a non-draft game if I had to.

I have almost a month to decide, though. :p

Why can't you just quit? This won't be head-to head-scoring.

That's true. If I end up with KG, AI, Kobe, AND Lebron, I could just stop playing and not dump my team back into the free agent pool - cool! :p

Is this the only fantasy basketball we'll be playing, or is there a different one for the season? Is this just like baseball, where you pick a team every night?

Either way, I'm in.

EDIT: Is "Team Name" my own screen name, like how everyone has a name on the ESPN one?

Yes, it's whatever you want to name your team.

We'll be playing an ESPN salary cap game also, which works exactly the same was as the basbeall game does.

This Yahoo game is a bit different.

There will be a live on-line draft, so everyone winds up with different players. Also, you can make trades with other players, and drop players from your team and add free agents.

We will all draft 17 players, but you can only have 12 playing each night, so to play properly you do have to check your roster every day and make sure that your lineup for that day consists of 12 of the 17 who are playing that day.

Oh, okay - then disregard my question on the yahoo page. It wasn't clear looking at the settings...

Oh... it doesn't sound that great. The ESPN one sounds way better. If we're playing that one for sure, I'll just stick with that one.

I'm signed up.

Uber ugh GangsterBB HOF Points baby (whatever they are :rolleyes: )

That's right!! Good point - Now even Yahoo games have points!! (Except Hockey, that doesn't count for anything. :p )

Oh, okay - then disregard my question on the yahoo page. It wasn't clear looking at the settings... [/b][/quote]I wanted to have 12 players in action every night, like a regular NBA team.

To at each position, and two more guys at any position you want (utility).

But we also want to have a full roster every night. Do you guys think that five guys on the bench is enough to ensure that you can have a full roster almost every night?

Yes, there are nights when there are only one or two games, so it will be impossible every night unless we draft a million players each.

Or maybe we should each draft 30 players or so, so we have a lot to choose from every night, and knowledge of some of the lesser players becomes important.

Keep in mind, also, that there's some drafting strategy here...i.e. you don't wanna have too many guys from the same team. I you do, it'll be tough to fill out your roster on nights when that team doesn't play.

plaw is there a way to set it up so that we draft say the first 20 and then it autodrafts the last 10 for example.

That football draft took WAAAY too long in my opinion.

I don't think so. It's one or the other.

It will be impossible to have a full roster going every night, cuz there are nights when there are only two games, so you'd need to have 12 players from those 4 teams, which is unlikely.

But good strategy would involve looking at the NBA schedule and making sure you have a least a few players from the teams that play on most of the nights when there are very few games.

Maybe I'll increase the bench to 12.

If we get 6 players for the league, we'll have to draft a total of 144 players.

With 30 starters at each position to choose from, times 5 positions, that's 150 players, all starters, so we won't have to dip down into the dregs that no one ever heard of, and with a 12 man bench you should be able to have a full roster almost every night.

But drafting 24 players makes it imopossible to have at least one player from each team, so you have to make sure you don't load up too heavily with guys from any one team.

Here is my take on a league like this:

Although it can be played as a daily game, it has more of a set-it-and-forget-it feature. Before you laugh, let me finish...

For each position, there is an 82 game limitation. You can see this on the "Maximum Games Played" link at the bottom of your team page. Since Plaw is starting two players per position, you are alloted 164 games for PG, 164 games for SG, etc...

Say you have KG and Tim Duncan (with Tyson Chandler and Othella Harrington on your bench). You'd obviously want KG and Tim Duncan to play most of your PF games. If you put in Chandler or Harrington any time KG and TD had an day-off, you'd be taking games away from your superstars that they'd play later on and you'd reach your maximum within 3 months (if you start someone at your two PF spots for 82 straight days). That means you'll be missing 3 months of KG and TD starts. It is in your best interest to save your starts for the superstars. Obviously, if KG playes only 75 of the 82 games, then you'd have to fill in for those missing 7 games.

If you play everyday, you'll reach your maximum within 3 months. The trick is to be as close as you can to the maximum number of games allowed by the end of the season.

Therefore, it's not necessary to have 30 players on your team. Just have your starting 12 and 5 bench players.

Interesting....I didn't realize that. Complicates things about

Cant't you eliminate that maximum games played feature? I'll have to go and look.

I'd want it so you can have a complete roster every day when possible.

DMC - You can do that already. All you have to do is draft how many rounds you want to pick yourself and when you want to quit drafting, just close out of the "draft lobby". Yahoo will autopick the rest of the way (based on whatever rankings you have or Yahoo rankings if you didn't set it).

Actually, if you do this, PLEASE CLOSE OUT OF THAT DRAFT LOBBY.** The only reason the football draft went on so long was because some people left their lobbies open and everytime it was their turn, all 1 minute and 30 seconds were used because their computers thought they were manually picking. :rolleyes:

** There is also another option. In the draft lobby, there is a button that you can click that says "Away from your computer" or something like that. If you click on that, it'll be on autodraft.

I changed the max # of games played at each position to 100.

But since the season is about 6 mos long, that still puts a crimp in my plans on how to run this thing.

Maybe I won't play...

Relax...we'll get this all figured out.

I have DB helping me now.

Maybe I'll take a look and see how ESPN and the other sites run this game.

I only went with Yahoo cuz I figured everone was familiar with it already.

*cough* Must be nice having someone help you. :p

Plaw,

Quick question... What does this mean? It's in our league settings.

Weekly Deadline: Daily - Tomorrow

I've always played Yahoo Basketball kind of like we do for football. You can change your team up to 5 minutes before the game starts. Is this how it works or is it another way?

The other options were "Weekly-Sunday', "weekly-Monday", etc., so I assumed that this option meant you could change your team any day of the week for the next day. I didn't see anything about a "lock time" though.

As I said to Plaw yesterday on Yahoo messenger, I have not decided which basketball game I'm playing. I'll only be playing in one - either this one or the ESPN league if we set that up.

I'm actually leaning towards this one because for some reason (and I've always felt like this), the salary cap game doesn't translate as well for basketball compared to baseball. I don't know what it is - the lack of viable players, too few games, I don't know - something seems to be missing from that game.

Are there other choices for "Daily"?

No, that was it.